Meta-Analysis of Bowel Protocols in Critical Care Patients: A Word of Caution

Dominique Prat1, Jonathan Messika, Jean Damien Ricard

  • 1AP-HP, Service de Réanimation polyvalente et surveillance continue, Université Paris Sud, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France; AP-HP, Service de Réanimation Médico-Chirurgicale, Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes, France and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM, IAME 1137, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France; AP-HP, Service de Réanimation polyvalente et surveillance continue, Université Paris Sud, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France and Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, INSERM U999, Le Plessis Robinson, France.

Critical Care Medicine
|August 18, 2017
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